Tag: individualism

The Meritocratic Dilemma

We need a new way of thinking about the interplay of individualism and community.

The American’s Dilemma

On navigating the tension between individualism and fellow feeling.

The Unholy Trinity of the French Enlightenment

How mystics, radicals, and philosophers shared heretical views of the self in 18th-century France. A Q&A with CHARLY COLEMAN The traditional consensus on the Enlightenment describes a compellingly simple narrative. It portrays humankind’s emergence from the shadows of blind faith and self-denial to its discovery